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...part from one or two inconsistencies both story and dialect of "Uncle Willis Skimpy and the Cotton Bale," by T. N. Buckingham are carefully and well worked out. To the Southern reader, however, the use of Satan in dialect so marked as Uncle Willis's seems an unpardonable solecism, and the reasons for the stealing of the mysterious cotton bale are left in doubt. Uncle Willis, too, lacks convincingness. IT seems as if the author had bad no definite character in mind in writing his story, but had rather thought out his plot and set it down in negro dialect...
...Testament from the English or Latin into Greek. The reading by the students was followed by an exposition of the passages, which was given by the President, who concluded with prayer. On one occasion, when President Rogers officiated, his prayer was not so long by half as usual; and Cotton Mather remarked, "Heaven knows the Reason! The scholars returning to their chambers, found one of them on fire and the Fire had proceeded so far, that if the Devotions had held three Minutes longer, the Colledge had been irrecoverably laid in Ashes, which now was happily preserved." A peculiar feature...
...Adams, G. E. Adams, R. E. Andrews, L. T. Baker, P. S. Brayton, G. Bancroft, C. E. Baldwin, P. Bancroft, J. F. Brice, M. G. Beaman, J. E. Rousmaniere, R. P. Bellows, J. F. Perkins, J. P. Cotton, Arthur Adams, G. G. Crocker, Jr., J. F. Curtis, H. S. Dennison, M. Donald, B. Fairchild, J. W. Farley, A. V. Galbraith, H. H. Hill, J. B. Holden, Jr., F. A. Turner...
...CRIMSON is in receipt of a letter from Captain Cotton, U. S. N., of the "Harvard," announcing the receipt of the loving cup. The chest of colors has not as yet been received, and Captain Cotton writes that he will refrain from sending a formal letter of acceptance until its arrival...
...March, "King Cotton," Sousa...